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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2016
Looking at the world through x-ray with Nick Veasey
Project
2025
Designer as maker: Rebecca Wilkinson’s material investigations reveal design to be a practice of labour (and love)
Project
2011
Things Part II
Project
2011
Numen/For Use: Tape Melbourne
Motion
2025
These sculptures unravel the hidden meanings behind material belongings
Project
2019
Seoul-based design studio Press Room explores meaning through the physical
Project
2008
Dominic Wilcox
Project
2010
Lead Pencil Studio
Project
2012
Jonathan May
Project
2010
Tin Tin
Project
2018
Unit Editions’ study of Letraset takes on a new form in this Sheffield exhibition
Project
2017
Lanark Artefax takes us behind his boundary-pushing installation, The Absent Material Gateway
Project
2019
Patrick Fry unearths our new favourite design gem: bricks!
Movement
Mono-ha
Publication
2019
Catalog Press is questioning what a book can be (and maybe it's made of cheese)
Project
2010
Tim Sanders: Microscopic Vinyl Record Grooves
Project
2011
How ink is made
Project
2012
Tamar Frank: A thin line between space and matter
Publication
2017
Thomas Petherick and Georgia Pendlebury explore the sculptural quality of clothes for Novembre Magazine
Project
2012
Bjoern Ewers: Instruments from the Inside
Project
2012
It's furniture sure, but not as we know it – Critical Objects from HelloMe
Project
2012
LDF 2012: Nendo's chairs ghost through the V&A